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2 | Climate Change | Book | What If We Get It Right?: Visions of Climate Futures | Through clear-eyed essays and vibrant conversations, infused with data, poetry, and art, Ayana Elizabeth Johnson guides us through solutions and possibilities at the nexus of science, policy, culture, and justice. Visionary farmers and financiers, architects and advocates, help us conjure a flourishing future, one worth the effort it will take—from every one of us, with whatever we have to offer—to create. | Ayana Elizabeth Johnson | 2024 | |||
3 | African-American, History | Film | The Six Triple Eight | The Six Triple Eight is an American war drama film about the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, an all-black, all-female battalion, in World War II. | Tyler Perry | 2024 | https://www.netflix.com/title/81590591 | ||
4 | Management, Leadership | Book | Big Bets: How Large-Scale Change Really Happens | Rajiv J. Shah is no stranger to pulling off the impossible, from helping vaccinate 900 million children at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to a high-pressure race against the clock to stop the spread of Ebola. His secret? A big bets philosophy—the idea that seeking to solve problems rather than make incremental improvements can attract the unlikely partners with the power and know-how to achieve transformational change. Part career sweeping memoir, part inspirational playbook, Big Bets offers a master class in decision-making, leadership, and changing the world one bet at a time. | Rajiv Shah | 2023 | |||
5 | History, Politics | Book | Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives | Cobalt Red is the searing, first-ever exposé of the immense toll taken on the people and environment of the Democratic Republic of the Congo by cobalt mining, as told through the testimonies of the Congolese people themselves. Activist and researcher Siddharth Kara has traveled deep into cobalt territory to document the testimonies of the people living, working, and dying for cobalt. To uncover the truth about brutal mining practices, Kara investigated militia-controlled mining areas, traced the supply chain of child-mined cobalt from toxic pit to consumer-facing tech giants, and gathered shocking testimonies of people who endure immense suffering and even die mining cobalt. | Siddharth Kara | 2023 | |||
6 | History | TV Show/Documentary | The 1619 Project | Hulu’s six-part 1619 Docuseries is an expansion of “The 1619 Project” created by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones and the New York Times Magazine. The series seeks to reframe the country’s history by placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions of Black Americans at the very center of our national narrative. | Nikole Hannah-Jones (Creator) | 2023 | |||
7 | Diversity, equity, inclusion, workbook | Book | Reconstructing DEI: A Practicioner's Workbook | Author of the bestselling DEI Deconstructed returns with a companion workbook filled with practical and actionable techniques for changemakers at all stages of their DEI journey. | Lily Zheng | 2023 | |||
8 | Mental Health | Book | Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto | From the founder and creator of The Nap Ministry, Rest Is Resistance is a battle cry, a guidebook, a map for a movement, and a field guide for the weary and hopeful. It is rooted in spiritual energy and centered in Black liberation, womanism, somatics, and Afrofuturism. With captivating storytelling and practical advice, all delivered in Hersey’s lyrical voice and informed by her deep experience in theology, activism, and performance art, Rest Is Resistance is a call to action and manifesto for those who are sleep deprived, searching for justice, and longing to be liberated from the oppressive grip of Grind Culture. | Tricia Hersey | 2022 | |||
9 | Intersectional Environmentalism | Book | The Intersectional Environmentalist: How to Dismantle Systems of Oppression to Protect People + Planet | The Intersectional Environmentalist examines the inextricable link between environmentalism, racism, and privilege, and promotes awareness of the fundamental truth that we cannot save the planet without uplifting the voices of its people -- especially those most often unheard. | Leah Thomas | 2022 | |||
10 | Indigenous Communities | Book | Fresh Banana Leaves: Healing Indigenous Landscapes Through Indigenous Science | An Indigenous environmental scientist breaks down why western conservationism isn’t working–and offers Indigenous models informed by case studies, personal stories, and family histories that center the voices of Latin American women and land protectors. | Jessica Hernández | 2022 | |||
11 | Vanishing Communities | Film | Nations of Water | Nations of Water » is a documentary film born in the framework of a wider academic project aiming to create a bilingual English-French network on law and climate-induced migration in the Pacific, funded by the PIURN. The audiovisual production is intended for a wide audience, but in particular for law students around the world, for whom it is made available as an educational tool, complemented by the online resources on this site. The university initiative behind it starts from an observation: positive law is only marginally adapted to the situation of people who have to flee the consequences of climate change, a phenomenon that Pacific islands are facing on the frontline, in a region where there is no regional system of human rights protection. The complexity of the issues raised also stems from the human and political context that lawyers and lawyers-in-training must keep in mind when analyzing these aspects. While the nations of Oceania are particularly affected by erosion, flooding, soil salinization, and the increased frequency of extreme weather events, they are not passive. They are voicing the desire of thousands of people struggling to stay on their land through anticipating displacement scenarios, and actively contributing to the development of solutions. Legal instruments can be adapted, understood comprehensively and utilized creatively for better protecting impacted people, communities and nations. These reflections have led to an incredible human adventure, in which many contributors, experts, academics, field leaders, members of international organizations, from Australia, Hawaii, Kiribati, Niue, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Vanuatu… have participated. They could also be illustrated thanks to the collaboration of Lynn Englum, a researcher committed to the fight against climate change, and whose project « Vanishing Places » has brought back precious images of territories, communities and ecosystems directly threatened. | Valerie Baty, Lynne Englum, Geraldine Giraudeau | 2021 | |||
12 | Solutions, Climate change | Book | All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis | There is a renaissance blooming in the climate movement: leadership that is more characteristically feminine and more faithfully feminist, rooted in compassion, connection, creativity, and collaboration. While it’s clear that women and girls are vital voices and agents of change for this planet, they are too often missing from the proverbial table. More than a problem of bias, it’s a dynamic that sets us up for failure. To change everything, we need everyone. | Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Katharine Wilkinson, Editors | 2021 | |||
13 | Race Relations | Book | Nice Racism: How Progressive White People Perpetuate Racial Ham | Writing directly to white people as a white person, DiAngelo identifies many common white racial patterns and breaks down how well-intentioned white people unknowingly perpetuate racial harm. | Robin DiAngelo | 2021 | https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/670635/nice-racism-by-robin-diangelo/ | ||
14 | Education | Book | Do Better: Spiritual Activism for Fighting and Healing from White Supremacy | Do Better addresses racial justice from a comprehensive, intersectional, and spirit-based perspective. This actionable guidebook illustrates how to engage in the heart-centered and mindfulness-based practices that will help us all fight white supremacy from the inside out, in our personal lives and communities alike. It is a loving and assertive call to do the deep—and often uncomfortable—inner work that precipitates much-needed external and global change. | Rachel Ricketts | 2021 | |||
15 | Climate Solutions | Book | Revolutionary Power: An Activist's Guide to the Energy Transition | In Revolutionary Power, Shalanda Baker arms those made most vulnerable by our current energy system with the tools they need to remake the system in the service of their humanity. She argues that people of color, poor people, and indigenous people must engage in the creation of the new energy system in order to upend the unequal power dynamics of the current system. | Shalanda Baker | 2021 | |||
16 | Climate Change | Book | Saving Us: A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World | In Saving Us, Hayhoe argues that when it comes to changing hearts and minds, facts are only one part of the equation. We need to find shared values in order to connect our unique identities to collective action. This is not another doomsday narrative about a planet on fire. It is a multilayered look at science, faith, and human psychology. | Katharine Hayhoe | 2021 | |||
17 | Vanishing Communities | FIlm | One Word | The Republic of the Marshall Islands is an island nation near the equator in the vast endless blue of the Pacific Ocean. The country spreads out across three islands and 29 coral atolls, which comprise 1156 individual islands and islets. Most parts of the Marshall Islands are less than 5.9 feet above sea level. | Mark Uriona, Viviana Uriona | 2020 | |||
18 | Race Relations, History | Book | Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents | Beyond race, class, or other factors, there is a powerful caste system that influences people’s lives and behavior and the nation’s fate. Linking the caste systems of America, India, and Nazi Germany, Wilkerson explores eight pillars that underlie caste systems across civilizations, including divine will, bloodlines, stigma, and more. Using riveting stories about people—including Martin Luther King, Jr., baseball’s Satchel Paige, a single father and his toddler son, Wilkerson herself, and many others—she shows the ways that the insidious undertow of caste is experienced every day. | Isabel Wilkerson | 2020 | |||
19 | Native American | Book | As Long as Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock | Even before the era of the Ancient Greeks, the Marshall Islands were already inhabited. | Dina Gilio-Whitaker | 2020 | |||
20 | Native American | Book | Carry: A Memoir of Survival on Stolen Land | This unique approach to mutual exploration has resulted in an exciting, vivid and highly charged documentary that captures the most important topic of our time. | Toni Jensen | 2020 | |||
21 | Latino | TV Series | Gentefied | Gentefied follows the story of "three Mexican-American cousins and their struggle to chase the American Dream, even while that same dream threatens the things they hold most dear: their neighborhood, their immigrant grandfather and the family taco shop" | Marvin Lemus, Linda Yvette Chávez | 2020 | |||
22 | First Nations | Article | Addressing the Climate Crisis: Infusing Tribal Culture into Climate Science education. Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education. | The world is changing. Few are in a better position to know that than tribal people who have inhabited their homelands for thousands of years while living in close relationship with the land and the community of life it supports. Traditional tribal calendars are one way of measuring the change. In these calendars, months or moons are often named for the primary activity of that period or for a natural event that occurred reliably every year at that time. For thousands of years, those calendars stayed the same, and tribal people could depend on them. But now, because of climate change, the calendars have become out of sync with the natural world. | David Rockwell, Germain White, and Adrian Leighton | 2020 | https://tribalcollegejournal.org/addressing-the-climate-crisis-infusing-tribal-culture-into-climate-science-education/ | ||
23 | Disabled Communities | Book | Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist | And yet there is hope and it might save us all. | Judith Heumann and Kristen Joiner | 2020 | https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/621090/being-heumann-by-judith-heumann/ | ||
24 | Disabled Communities | The impact of climate change on the rights of persons with disabilities | The adverse impacts of climate change on individuals with multiple vulnerability factors, including women and girls with disabilities, require adequate measures that take into account their specific requirements and ensure their participation in disaster response planning for emergency situations and evacuations, humanitarian emergency response and healthcare services. | United Nations Human Rights OFfice of the High Commissioner | 2020 | https://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/HRAndClimateChange/Pages/PersonsWithDisabilities.aspx | |||
25 | Conservative/Latinos | Book | The Hispanic Republican: The Shaping of an American Political Identity, From Nixon to Trump | The book explores the history of the growth of Hispanic American Republican voters in the past half century and their surprising impact on US politics. | Gerardo Cavada | 2020 | |||
26 | African-American | Film | Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C. J. Walker | A chronicle of the incredible story of Madam C.J. Walker, who was the first African American self-made millionaire. The series is an American drama web television limited series, based on the biography On Her Own Ground by A'Lelia Bundles, that premiered on March 20, 2020 on Netflix. | Nicole Jefferson Asher | 2020 | Available in multiple languages | ||
27 | South Korean | Film | Parasite | Greed and class discrimination threaten the newly formed symbiotic relationship between the wealthy Park family and the destitute Kim clan. | Bong Joon-ho | 2019 | |||
28 | Norwegian | TV Show | Occupied | In the near future, Russia initiates a "silk glove" invasion of Norway to restart oil production, but soon uncertainty, chaos and danger erupts. | 2019 | ||||
29 | Native American | Docuseries | Basketball or Nothing | Todd Donnelly, Joseph Witthohn, Notah Begay II, executive producers | 2019 | ||||
30 | LGBTQ | Book | Juliet Takes a Breath | Juliet Milagros Palante is leaving the Bronx and headed to Portland, Oregon. She just came out to her family and isn’t sure if her mom will ever speak to her again. But Juliet has a plan, sort of, one that’s going to help her figure out this whole “Puerto Rican lesbian” thing. | Gabby Rivera | 2019 | |||
31 | History | Book | The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story | The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story builds on The New York Times Magazine’s award-winning “1619 Project,” which reframed our understanding of American history by placing slavery and its continuing legacy at the center of our national narrative. This book substantially expands on the original "1619 Project, "weaving together eighteen essays that explore the legacy of slavery in present-day America with thirty-six poems and works of fiction that illuminate key moments of oppression, struggle, and resistance. The essays show how the inheritance of 1619 reaches into every part of contemporary American society, from politics, music, diet, traffic, and citizenship to capitalism, religion, and our democracy itself. This legacy can be seen in the way we tell stories, the way we teach our children, and the way we remember. Together, the elements of the book reveal a new origin story for the United States, one that helps explain not only the persistence of anti-Black racism and inequality in American life today, but also the roots of what makes the country unique. | Nikole Hannah-Jones (Creator) | 2019 | |||
32 | Hawaiian/Indigenous | FIlm | See | Jason Momoa (Hawaiian) stars in this series about a dystopian future where a virus has caused the human race to lose its sight. The survivors have devolved socially, as they are forced to rely on their remaining senses. That is until a set of twins are born with sight. AppleTV lineup. | 2019 | ||||
33 | African-American/Latino | Film | When They See Us | A four-part series based on events of the 1989 Central Park jogger case and explores the lives and families of the five male suspects who were falsely accused then prosecuted on charges related to the rape and assault of a woman in Central Park, New York City. | Ava DuVernay | 2019 | |||
34 | African-American | Book/Memoir | How to Be an Antiracist | Kendi weaves an electrifying combination of ethics, history, law, and science with his own personal story of awakening to antiracism. This is an essential work for anyone who wants to go beyond the awareness of racism to the next step: contributing to the formation of a just and equitable society. | Ibram X. Kendi | 2019 | |||
35 | African-American | Film | Just Mercy | A true story that follows young lawyer Bryan Stevenson and his battle for justice as he defends a man sentenced to death despite evidence proving his innocence | Destin Daniel Cretton | 2019 | Based on the 2015 book Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson | ||
36 | Vanishing Communities | FIlm | Anote's Ark | The Pacific Island nation of Kiribati (population: 100,000) is one of the most remote places on the planet, seemingly far-removed from the pressures of modern life. Yet it is one of the first countries that must confront the main existential dilemma of our time: imminent annihilation from sea-level rise. | Matthieu Rytz, Bob Moore, Mila Aung-Thwin | 2018 | |||
37 | Native American | Film | Indian Horse | Based upon Richard Wagamese’s novel of the same name, this film tells the story of a First Nations’ Native boarding school resident-turned-hockey phenome, Saul Indian Horse. | Stephen Campaneli, director | 2018 | Book by Richard Wagamese | ||
38 | Native American | Film | Merata: How Mum Decolonized the Screen | Merata Mita (Maori) became a trailblazing filmmaker to combat the dearth of her peoples’ stories on the silver screen. Her documentaries about Indigenous causes drew the ire of the status quo and the accolades of her fellow filmmakers, thrusting her work onto the international stage and enabling her to serve as literal and figurative mentor to some of the most exciting directors working today. Upon her passing in 2010, her sixth and youngest child Heperi combed through Merata’s archival footage, illuminating the cathartic layers behind her drive to shatter White patriarchy and share her peoples’ perspective with the masses. | Merata Mita | 2018 | |||
39 | Latino | Comedy Special | Latin History for Morons | Based on his Broadway show of the same name, which was nominated for a Tony, the show looks to “undo your whole education” and teach viewers what happened in the 3000 years between the age of the Mayans and “the age of Pitbull”. | John Leguizamo | 2018 | |||
40 | Latino | Film | Roma | A vivid, emotional portrait of a domestic worker's journey set against domestic and political turmoil in 1970s Mexico. | Alfonso Cuarón | 2018 | |||
41 | Indigenous Communities | Book | Perspectives on Indigenous Issues: Essays on Science, Spirituality and the Power of Words | Chapter titles include; The Real Human Being and Spirituality, Alternative View on Global Warming and What Can Be Done. Forgotten Way of Being, Western Science and Traditional Ways of Being. | Ilarion Merculieff, Galena Vladi, Libby Roderick | 2018 | |||
42 | Diversity issues | Book | White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism | The book explores the counterproductive reactions white people have when their assumptions about race are challenged, and how these reactions maintain racial inequality. | Robin DiAngelo | 2018 | |||
43 | Civil Rights & Liberties | Book | So You Want to Talk about Race | In this New York Times bestseller, Ijeoma Oluo offers a hard-hitting but user-friendly examination of race in America | Ijeoma Oluo | 2018 | |||
44 | African-American | Book | I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness | A look at how white, middle-class, Evangelicalism has participated in an era of rising racial hostility, inviting the reader to confront apathy, recognize God's ongoing work in the world, and discover how blackness--if we let it--can save us all. | Austin Channing Brown | 2018 | |||
45 | African-American | Film | The Hate U Give | An American drama film directed by George Tillman Jr. with a screenplay by Audrey Wells, based on the 2017 young adult novel of the same name by Angie Thomas. It follows the fallout after a high school student witnesses a police shooting. | Angie Thomas | 2018 | It is also a book | ||
46 | Race Relations | Book | Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race | Exploring issues from eradicated black history to the political purpose of white dominance, whitewashed feminism to the inextricable link between class and race, Reni Eddo-Lodge offers a timely and essential new framework for how to see, acknowledge and counter racism. It is a searing, illuminating, absolutely necessary exploration of what it is to be a person of colour in Britain today. | Reni Eddo-Lodge | 2017 | |||
47 | Politics, History, Nonfiction | Book | On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century | A bracing guide for surviving and resisting America’s turn towards authoritarianism, from a rising public intellectual unafraid to make bold connections between past and present. | Timothy Snyder | 2017 | |||
48 | Mental Health | Book | My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathways to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies | The body is where our instincts reside and where we fight, flee, or freeze. My Grandmother’s Hands is a call to action for Americans to recognize that racism is not about the head, but about the body. Author Resmaa Menakem introduces an alternative view of what we can do to grow beyond our entrenched racialized divide. | Resmaa Menakem | 2017 | |||
49 | Liberal & Conservative Values | How to Have Better Political Conversations | Robb Willer studies the forces that unite and divide us. As a social psychologist, he researches how moral values -- typically a source of division -- can also be used to bring people together. Willer shares compelling insights on how we might bridge the ideological divide and offers some intuitive advice on ways to be more persuasive when talking politics. | Robb Willer | 2017 | ||||
50 | History | Film | Hidden Figures | Three brilliant African-American women at NASA -- Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson -- serve as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in history: the launch of astronaut John Glenn into orbit, a stunning achievement that restored the nation's confidence, turned around the Space Race and galvanized the world. | Theodore Melfi | 2017 | |||
51 | Environmental Science | Book | Energy Democracy: Advancing Equity in Clean Energy Solutions | This volume brings together racial, cultural, and generational perspectives. This diversity is bound together by a common operating frame: that the global fight to save the planet—to conserve and restore our natural resources to be life-sustaining—must fully engage community residents and must change the larger economy to be sustainable, democratic, and just. | Denise Fairchild and Al Weinrub (Editors) | 2017 | |||
52 | Diverse cultures | Book | Refugee | Three three young people (Jewish, Cuban and Syrian) go on harrowing journeys in search of refuge. All will face unimaginable dangers–from drownings to bombings to betrayals. But for each of them, there is always the hope of tomorrow. | Alan Gratz | 2017 | Kid's book | ||
53 | Diverse Communities | Book | Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: And Other Conversations About Race | Walk into any racially mixed high school and you will see Black, White, and Latino youth clustered in their own groups. Is this self-segregation a problem to address or a coping strategy? Beverly Daniel Tatum, a renowned authority on the psychology of racism, argues that straight talk about our racial identities is essential if we are serious about enabling communication across racial and ethnic divides. These topics have only become more urgent as the national conversation about race is increasingly acrimonious. This fully revised edition is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the dynamics of race in America. | Beverly Daniel Tatum | 2017 | |||
54 | Civil Rights & Liberties | Book | Prison Power: How Prison Influenced the Movement for Black Liberation | How iconic autobiographies found incarceration pivotal to the transition between civil rights and Black Power. | Lisa M. Corrigan | 2017 | |||
55 | Race Relations, Politics | Book | White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide | As Ferguson, Missouri, erupted in August 2014, and media commentators across the ideological spectrum referred to the angry response of African Americans as "black rage," historian Carol Anderson wrote a remarkable op-ed in the Washington Post showing that this was, instead, "white rage at work. With so much attention on the flames," she writes, "everyone had ignored the kindling." Since 1865 and the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment, every time African Americans have made advances towards full participation in our democracy, white reaction has fueled a deliberate, relentless rollback of their gains. The end of the Civil War and Reconstruction was greeted with the Black Codes and Jim Crow; the Supreme Court’s landmark 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision was met with the shutting down of public schools throughout the South; the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965 triggered a coded response, the so-called Southern Strategy and the War on Drugs that disenfranchised millions of African Americans. Carefully linking these and other historical flashpoints, Anderson pulls back the veil that has long covered actions made in the name of democracy, fiscal responsibility, or protection against fraud, rendering visible the long lineage of white rage. Compelling and dramatic in the unimpeachable history it relates, White Rage will add an important new dimension to the national conversation about race in America. | Carol Anderson | 2016 | |||
56 | Race Relations | Book | 8 Essentials to a Race Conversation: A Manual to a New Dialogue | Race is a difficult topic for Americans to have a conversation about. We talk a lot about race, but conversations that are healing, filled with compassion and lead to inspired action, are not always in our midst. In her new book, Milagros Phillips, Author of 11 REASONS TO BECOME RACE LITERATE: A pocket guide to a new conversation leads her readers through 8 essential components of a successful conversation on race. Her thoughtful new book brings together the strategies she has used successfully during the last 25 years of facilitating race conversations with corporate leaders, educators and national leaders. | Milagros Phillips | 2016 | |||
57 | Korean/Canadian | TV Show | Kim's Convenience | The series depicts the Korean Canadian Kim family who run a convenience store in the Moss Park neighbourhood of Toronto.The series is based on Ins Choi's 2011 play of the same name. | Ins Choi and Kevin White | 2016 | Netflix | ||
58 | History | Book | The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America | The author builds the incisive case that it was mass slavery, more than epidemics, that decimated Indian populations across North America. New evidence, including testimonies of courageous priests, rapacious merchants, Indian captives, and Anglo colonists, sheds light too on Indian enslavement of other Indians — as what started as a European business passed into the hands of indigenous operators and spread like wildfire across vast tracts of the American Southwest. | Andrés Reséndez | 2016 | |||
59 | Feminism | Book | Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene (Experimental Futures) | In the midst of spiraling ecological devastation, multispecies feminist theorist Donna J. Haraway offers provocative new ways to reconfigure our relations to the earth and all its inhabitants. | Donna J. Haraway | 2016 | |||
60 | Feminism | Book | Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her | Griffin explores the identification of women with the earth both as sustenance for humanity and as victim of male rage. | Susan Griffin | 2016 | |||
61 | Cultural Anthropology | Film | Body Ritual Among the Nacirema | “One Word“ is a participatory documentary about the impacts of Climate Change on the Republic of the Marshall Islands and its people. | Horace Miner | 2016 | Movie version of the famous essays by Horace Miner | ||
62 | Civil Rights & Liberties | Book | The Third Reconstruction: How a Moral Movement Is Overcoming the Politics of Division and Fear | In an analysis of race-based inequality and a hopeful message for a nation grappling with persistent racial and economic injustice, Rev. Barber writes about how he laid the groundwork for a state-by-state movement that unites black, white, and brown, rich and poor, employed and unemployed, gay and straight, documented and undocumented, religious and secular. Only such a diverse fusion movement, Rev. Barber argues, can heal our nation’s wounds and produce public policy that is morally defensible, constitutionally consistent, and economically sane. | Rev. Dr. William J. Barber I and Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove | 2016 | |||
63 | Christian values | Book | Caring for Creation: The Evangelical's Guide to Climate Change and a Healthy Environment | Connecting the dots between science and faith, this book explores the climate debate and how Christians can take the lead in caring for God's creation. The authors answer top questions such as "What's really happening?" and "Who can we trust?" and discuss stewarding the earth in light of evangelical values." | Paul Douglas and Mitch Hescox | 2016 | |||
64 | American/Canadian | TV Series | Hell on Wheels | Centers around the construction of the First Transcontinental Railroad across the United States. | Joe and Tony Gayton | 2016 | |||
65 | African-American | Documentary | 13th | In this thought-provoking documentary, scholars, activists and politicians analyze the criminalization of African Americans and the U.S. prison boom. | Ava DuVernay | 2016 | |||
66 | Progressives | Book | This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs the Climate | Naomi Klein tackles the most profound threat humanity has ever faced: the war our economic model is waging against life on earth. | Naomi Klein | 2015 | There is a film | ||
67 | LGBTQ | Film | Stonewall | The groundbreaking events that led to the birth of the modern Gay Rights movement, in 1969, at New York City's Stonewall Inn | Roland Emmerich, director; Jon Robin Baitz, writer | 2015 | |||
68 | Conservative | Book | Unstoppable: The Emerging Left-Right Alliance to Dismantle the Corporate State | Ralph Nader has fought for over fifty years on behalf of American citizens against the reckless influence of corporations and their government patrons on our society. In Unstoppable, he ramps up the fight and shows how Left-Right coalitions can prevail over the corporate state and crony capitalism. | Ralph Nader | 2015 | |||
69 | Climate Justice | Book | What We're Fighting for Now Is Each Other: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Climate Justice | In this book, the author tells his own story and offers an up-close, on-the-ground look at some of the remarkable and courageous people—those he calls “new American radicals”—who have laid everything on the line to build and inspire this fast-growing old-school environmentalists and young climate-justice organizers, frontline community leaders and Texas tar-sands blockaders, Quakers and college students, evangelicals and Occupiers. Most important, Stephenson pushes beyond easy labels to understand who these people really are, what drives them, and what they’re ultimately fighting for. He argues that the movement is less like environmentalism as we know it and more like the great human rights and social-justice struggles of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, from abolitionism to civil rights. It’s a movement for human solidarity. | Wes Stephenson | 2015 | |||
70 | Christian values | Book | On Care of our Common Home, Laudato Sí | Pope Francis calls on the Church and the world to acknowledge the urgency of our environmental challenges and to join him in embarking on a new path. | Pope Francis | 2015 | |||
71 | African-American | Book | Between the World and Me | Ta-Nehisi Coates | 2015 | ||||
72 | Indigenous Communities | Book | An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States | This is the third of a series of five ReVisioning books which reconstruct and reinterpret U.S. history from marginalized peoples' perspectives. | Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz | 2014 | |||
73 | Diversity issues | Book | The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business | An international business expert helps you understand and navigate cultural differences in this insightful and practical guide, perfect for both your work and personal life. | Erin Meyer | 2014 | |||
74 | Cultural competency | Book | What If I Say the Wrong Thing?: 25 Habits of Culturally Effective People | The book is a perfect handbook for anyone who is looking to develop the habits of culturally effective people. In this handy reference, you'll find answers to questions about all types of diversity issues and tips about how to practice culturally effective habits. And with the variety of suggested follow-ups and actions contained within it, you will better know how to handle your own situations. Many of these situations occur without us being "properly prepared" for them; reading these habits is like doing drills so you'll be ready! | Vernā A. Myers | 2014 | |||
75 | African-American | Film/Historical Drama | Selma | The film is based on the 1965 Selma to Montgomery voting rights marches led by James Bevel, Hosea Williams, Martin Luther King Jr., and John Lewis | Ava DuVernay/Paul Webb | 2014 | |||
76 | Native American | Book | Braiding Sweetgrass | But now the greenhouse gas emissions of the industrial societies severely harm or might even destroy the ancient culture of the Marshall Islands. Because the sea is rising. Negative forecasts predict the uninhabitability of the islands by the year 2050. | Robin Wall Kimmerer | 2013 | |||
77 | LGBTQ | Book/Queer Ecology | Strange Natures: Futurity, Empathy, and the Queer Ecological Imagination | Seymour investigates the ways in which contemporary queer fictions offer insight on environmental issues through their performance of a specifically queer understanding of nature, the nonhuman, and environmental degradation. | Nicole Seymour | 2013 | |||
78 | Indigenous Communities | Book | Radicalizing Relationships To and Through Shared Geographies: Why Anarchists Need to Understand Indigenous Connections to Land and Place | Indigenous activists and anarchist Settler people are articulating common ground in opposition to imperialism and colonialism. However, many anarchists have faced difficulties in Indigenous solidarity work through unintentional (often unwitting) transgressions and appropriations. Through the introduction of settler colonialism as a complicating power dynamic, we observe that anarchists bring unconscious spatial perceptions into their solidarity work. Further, Indigenous activists often perceive anarchists as Settler people first and foremost, which carries another set of spatial implications. We examine a number of examples of anarchist and Indigenous activism, at times empowering and at times conflictual, in order to reveal some general trends. Through an intensive synthesis of Indigenous peoples’ theories and articulations of place‐based relationships, we suggest that deeper understandings of these relationships can be of great importance in approaching solidarity work in place and with respect. | Adam J. Barker, Jenny Pickerill | 2012 | |||
79 | Cultural Anthropology | Film | Who are the Nacirema? | A piece of cultural criticism created for Dr. Shante Smalls' class: Race & Speculation. Filmed at Davidson College in Davidson, NC. | Students | 2012 | |||
80 | Conservative | Book | The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion | Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt challenges conventional thinking about morality, politics, and religion in a way that speaks to conservatives and liberals alike. | Jonathan Haidt | 2012 | |||
81 | Civil Rights & Liberties | Book | The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness | This book directly challenges the notion that the election of Barack Obama signaled a new era of colorblindness. With dazzling candor, legal scholar Michelle Alexander argues that "we have not ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it." | Michelle Alexander | 2012 | |||
82 | American | Film/Drama | Beasts of the Southern Wild | Benh Zeitlin, director, based on a screenplay by Lucy Alibar and Benh Zeitlin | 2012 | Trailer | |||
83 | Christian values | Book | With Justice for All: A Strategy for Community Development | Perkins’s optimistic view of justice becoming a reality starts and ends with the Church. The author invites people to live out the gospel in a way that brings good news to the poor and liberty to the oppressed and is extended to every racial and ethnic group to be reconciled to one another, to work together to make our land all God wants it to be. | John Perkins | 2011 | |||
84 | Christian values | Book | Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? | In 1967, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., isolated himself from the demands of the civil rights movement, rented a house in Jamaica with no telephone, and labored over his final manuscript. In this prophetic work, which has been unavailable for more than ten years, he lays out his thoughts, plans, and dreams for America's future, including the need for better jobs, higher wages, decent housing, and quality education. With a universal message of hope that continues to resonate, King demanded an end to global suffering, asserting that humankind-for the first time-has the resources and technology to eradicate poverty. | Martin Luther King | 2010 | |||
85 | African-American/Latino | Film | Our Family Wedding | The weeks leading up to a young couple's wedding are comic and stressful, especially as their respective fathers try to lay their long standing feud to rest. | Rick Famuyina | 2010 | |||
86 | Interpersonal Relations | Book | Emotional Intelligence 2.0 | In today's fast-paced world of competitive workplaces and turbulent economic conditions, each of us is searching for effective tools that can help us to manage, adapt, and strike out ahead of the pack. | Travis Bradberry and Jean Greaves | 2009 | |||
87 | History | Book | The Afro-Latin@ Reader: History and Culture in the United States | The Afro-Latin@ Reader presents a kaleidoscopic view of Black Latin@s in the United States. It addresses history, music, gender, class, and media representations in more than sixty selections, including scholarly essays, memoirs, newspaper and magazine articles, poetry, short stories, and interviews. | Miriam Jiménez and Juan Flores (Editors) | 2009 | |||
88 | Environmental Economics | Book | The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems | The Green Collar Economy delivers a viable plan for solving the two biggest issues facing the country today: the economy and the environment. | Van Jones | 2009 | |||
89 | Anarch@-feminism | Research thesis | On the Edge of All Dichotomies: Anarch@-Feminist Thought, Process and Action, 1970-1983. | Thesis explores the origins of anarch@-feminism from 1970 to 1983. Focusing on early discourses in theoretical texts, newsletters, ‘zines, journals, and conference reports. "I will address how theoretical debates were translated into practice over the course of the seventies, through experimentation with organizational structures, decentralized networking, and consensus process. Finally, I will explore how these experiments influenced anarch@-feminist direct action and protest in the early eighties" | Lindsay Grace Weber | 2009 | |||
90 | African-American | Book | Race, Place, and Environmental Justice After Hurricane Katrina: Struggles to Reclaim, Rebuild, and Revitalize New Orleans and the Gulf Coast | This heavily researched and annotated collection of essays on the “geography of vulnerability” as found in the aftermath of Katrina is an overwhelming analysis of a microcosm of American society. Written by experts in environmental justice, land-use policy, and political science, it addresses everything from transportation infrastructure to social inequality and urban development. Although academic in style, it carries emotional weight. The numbers alone are powerful, as the years of societal neglect for lower-income residents of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast are laid bare. From quoting a misguided congressman who believes that all living in rural areas are farmers to the pathetically inadequate evacuation plan for one of the largest and most vulnerable cities in the country, the authors each have a distinct focus which together provide a cohesive look at how so many things went wrong after the catastrophe and how those errors were years in the making. With solid, fact-based conclusions, responsible recommendations, and chapters on rebuilding efforts, this title should serve as a textbook for today’s urban planners. | Robert D. Bullard/Beverly Wright | 2009 | |||
91 | Liberal & Conservative Values | Video | The Moral Roots of Liberal and Conservatives | Psychologist Jonathan Haidt studies the five moral values that form the basis of our political choices, whether we're left, right or center. In this eye-opening talk, he pinpoints the moral values that liberals and conservatives tend to honor most. | Jonathan Haidt | 2008 | |||
92 | Leadership Training | Book | 35 Dumb Things Well-Intended People Say: Surprising Things We Say That Widen the Diversity Gap | Have you ever heard yourself or someone else say: ""Some of my best friends are... (Black, White, Asian, etc.)""? ""I don't think of you as... (Gay, Disabled, Jewish, etc.)""? ""I don't see color, I'm colorblind""? These statements and dozens like them can build a divide between us and the people we interact with. Though well-intended, they often widen the diversity gap sometimes causing irreparable harm personally and professionally. If you've ever wanted to be more effective in your communication with others, or have been afraid of saying the wrong thing, then this concise guide is essential to becoming more inclusive and diversity-smart. | Maura Cullen | 2008 | |||
93 | Conservative/Latinos | Book | Los Republicanos: Why Hispanics and Republicans Need Each Other | Long assumed to be aligned with the Democrats, Hispanics have been ignored by many Republicans. Noted Hispanic marketing expert and political commentator Leslie Sanchez passionately argues that Hispanics, after years of watching Democrats fail them, need to shift their bets to Los Republicanos or risk gambling away their political future. In her book, Sanchez debunks the cultural and political myths about Hispanics and Republicans alike. | Leslie Sanchez | 2007 | |||
94 | Christian values | Book | Serve God Save the Planet: A Christian Call to Action | Sleeth shares the joy of adopting a less materialistic, healthier lifestyle, stronger relationships, and richer spiritual lives. | J. Matthew Sleeth M.D. | 2007 | |||
95 | LGBTQ | Fillm/Comedy | Kinky Boots | A drag queen comes to the rescue of a man who, after inheriting his father's shoe factory, needs to diversify his product if he wants to keep the business afloat. | Chiwetel Ejiofor | 2005 | |||
96 | Discrimination & Racism | Book | Priviledge, Power and Difference | Written in an accessible, conversational style, Johnson links theory with engaging examples in ways that enable readers to see the underlying nature and consequences of privilege and their connection to it. This extraordinarily successful book has been used across the country, both inside and outside the classroom, to shed light on issues of power and privilege. | Allan G. Johnson | 2005 | |||
97 | American/Indian | Documentary Drama | Born into Brothels | Zana Briski and Ross Kauffman | 2005 | ||||
98 | Ecofeminism | Research thesis | The Greening of Gaia: Ecofeminist Artists Revisit the Garden | Discusses how in the celebration of interconnectedness of all things, the arts have begun to play a major transformational part. This, in itself, makes ecofeminism a different kind of political movement, for instead of viewing the arts as adjuncts to political activity or as distractions from political activism, ecofeminism considers the arts to be essential catalysts of change. | Gloria Feman Orenstein | 2003 | |||
99 | Latino | Book | Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America | A noted Hispanic journalist sheds new light on the history of Latinos in America, ranging from the first sixteenth-century colonies in the New World through the 1998 presidential election, and offers close-up portraits of distinguished Americans of Hispanic descent who have played a key role in the ever-evolving face of American life. | Juan González | 2001 | |||
100 | Spanish | Film | Butterfly or Lengua de las mariposas | The movie was developed and filmed with the inclusion of Marshallese people through film workshops that have run over a period of nine months. The filmmakers trusted the Marshallese people to be the only reliable experts when it comes to the story of their land. | José Luis Cuerda | 1999 |